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Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century

Black horsehair lace was stretched over a wire frame to construct this "transparent" hat of about 1910. Made by James G. Johnson & Co. of Newark, New Jersey, it is decorated with a whole bird of paradise, whose importation as a millinery trimming would soon be outlawed in the United States by the Federal Tariff Act of 1913. Dilys E. Blum, from Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (1993), p. 12.